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RE: Have I offended anybody in this situation?
(06-05-2018 10:50 AM)KeepMovingForward Wrote: Huge rookie mistake and lack of social intelligence, bad combo.
NEVER go on a group date with a girl you haven't fucked. You will be competing with her friends for attention, it puts her in the driver's seat and elevates her status. You also decrease your chances of taking her home since she now has increased social pressure being in front of her friends.
You made things worse by hitting on another girl in her social circle at a house party. This is socially retarded, if she was being purposely standoffish and you wanted to use it as a jealousy ploy, that can work, but the way you described it sounds like you just switched targets in the middle of the party. Of course you're going to piss off the original girl, and her friends will all now be allied with her against you. Also sounds like you misread the new girl, if she went stone cold on you after leaving than she likely wasn't that into you, and just wanted to drink more.
I have heard of the advice to not go on a date when others are present but given that I suggested a plan for about 2 hrs later, I felt like it would be more painful to then cancel. I guess I shouldn't have suggested anything at that point in convo as it put the ball on her to interpet whether I meant this as a 2 people 'date' or as a group activity.
If the original girl took the whole situation to be for more than friends, she didn't give any clear hints of it and I also did not make any direct attempts at her for the reason you mentioned - preference of being on a 1 to 1 drinks.
When I was sat with the gay friend, the girls came to talk to us and I was just having fun convo with them, the one girl was very responsive so I tried my luck with her. Maybe I did misunderstand the situation but she was leaning her head into my shoulder, kept hugging me etc. I would have felt more stupid if I didn't try anything.
I do ocassionally lack social intellegence, I'm trying to improve but it's very difficult when you only realise the stupidity of your actions after they've happened. Not really sure how I can improve this slow learning curve.
(06-05-2018 09:00 AM)Noir Wrote: Original girl probably thought you were into her and thought playing hard to get would work. When it didn't, it lead to her freezing you out and the gays following suit (birds of a feather flock together).
You could have mitigated this if you mentioned something (communicated you are leaving) but honestly, don't sweat it. It sounds like you guys are pretty young so I am sure you will get drunk next weekend and have a good laugh about it.
I would just be aloof about the whole thing, no stress.
If anything, original girl is going to be even more keen for you, just keep your game up like nothing happened.
It's end of university and some of these friends are graduating as I'm doing a longer course so might not even see these people. But like Keepmovingforward said, I do recognise I sometimes do things that are socially stupid so I want to improve myself.
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RE: Have I offended anybody in this situation?
(06-06-2018 03:18 PM)Jack Hughes Wrote: Who cares if anyones mad at you? You didn't even do anything offensive.
I do sometimes offend people in social sittuations without meaning to just because I'm very hard to offend to and sometimes assume that the other person is also like that. Still have quite a bit of catching up to do socially
Anyway I met up with them later and while I do think she was initially unhappy about the situation, she has been even more active in trying to grab my attention.
My only problem now is meeting her on her own. Most students have gone home so shes always doing something with her flatmates. I'll have to be really direct if I want to get her to come alone but I fear that may kill the tension, particularly as the gay guy would be protective of her.
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